🟩 Wordle Solver
Enter what you know — green positions, yellow letters, gray letters — and instantly see every possible answer, ranked by best guess.
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How to Use the Wordle Solver
Green boxes: Click a box and type the letter you know is in that exact position. Tab or arrow keys move between boxes. Leave a box blank if the position is unknown.
Yellow field: Type all letters shown in yellow in your game. These letters exist in the word but are in the wrong spot. You can enter multiple letters, e.g. ar.
Gray field: Type all letters shown in gray. These letters are confirmed absent from the word entirely.
Click Find Words (or press Enter). Results appear ranked by letter frequency — the top words are your statistically best next guesses.
Best Wordle Starting Words
These openers cover the most common letters with no repeats — maximising information from your first guess.
CRANE is the most statistically optimal opener — it solves the puzzle in an average of 3.45 guesses across all possible Wordle answers.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the Wordle solver work?
The solver filters a list of 5-letter English words using your known green (correct position), yellow (wrong position), and gray (absent) letters. Results are ranked by letter frequency — words with common letters like E, T, A, R, S appear first because they reveal the most information.
Is using a Wordle solver cheating?
That depends on how you play. Many people use solvers to learn strategy, recover from a bad start, or simply satisfy curiosity about what words were possible. The New York Times has no rules against using tools — play however is fun for you.
What's the best starting word for Wordle?
Statistically, words like CRANE, SLATE, TRACE, and CRATE consistently perform best because they cover the five most common letters (C/S, R/L, A, T/A, N/E) with no repeated letters. CRANE is widely considered the optimal opener.
Does this work for NYT Wordle, Quordle, and Octordle?
Yes. The solver works for any Wordle variant that uses standard 5-letter English words. For Quordle and Octordle, run the solver separately for each active word with its own pattern and constraints.
Why does the word list matter?
This solver uses the ENABLE word list — a comprehensive public-domain dictionary of over 172,000 English words. The NYT Wordle uses a curated subset of common words, so answers will always appear in our list. We never use proprietary word lists.
What do the frequency scores mean?
Each result shows a score based on English letter frequency analysis. Higher scores mean the word contains more common letters (e.g. E scores 12.7, Z scores 0.1). Guessing high-frequency words first reveals information faster and helps you solve in fewer guesses.
About This Wordle Solver
The ClueSolver Wordle Solver is a free, browser-based tool that helps you find valid five-letter words matching any pattern. It uses the ENABLE word list (Enhanced North American Benchmark LEXicon) — a public-domain dictionary of over 172,000 English words that covers all words used in the NYT Wordle and similar games.
Unlike other solvers, ClueSolver ranks results using English letter frequency analysis. Each word receives a score based on how common its letters are in the English language (E = 12.7%, T = 9.1%, A = 8.2%, etc.). Words with unique, high-frequency letters score higher and appear at the top — these are your best guesses because they eliminate the most possibilities in one move.
The solver works entirely in your browser. The word list is cached after the first load, so it works offline from your second visit onwards. No data is sent to any server — your guesses stay private.
Wordle Variants Supported
This solver works for NYT Wordle, Quordle (run it four times), Octordle, Dordle, Wordle Unlimited, Hello Wordl, and any other game based on 5-letter English words.
Wordle Strategy Guide
The optimal Wordle strategy is to maximise information per guess. Start with a word covering common letters across all five positions. Use the solver after guess 1 to see your remaining candidates. By guess 3, most puzzles narrow to 5 or fewer words. If you have multiple options, choose the word that covers the most untested letters — even if it isn't the answer itself, it eliminates more candidates for your next guess. This "sacrifice guess" strategy reliably solves Wordle in 4 or fewer guesses.